- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group (Mar 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0440215633
- ISBN-13: 978-0440215639
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.4 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,854,225 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Berkeley cop Jill Smith is back in another adventure that could only occur in this brazen, eccentric town. Gym owner and former Olympic diver Bryn Wiley is in a turf war with sixties radical Sam Johnson, who owns a competing gym. When Bryn is shot, Sam is a prime suspect. Throughout her investigation into the naked truth, Jill is sidetracked by a band of nude citizens protesting the city s new anti-nudity ordinance.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
This is one author who keeps getting better and better,
By A Customer
This review is from: Sudden Exposure (A Jill Smith mystery) (Paperback)
Jill Smith enjoys being a homicide detective in Berkley. However when Detective Jeffrey Buckner, who has return rights, comes back from another assignment, she is demoted back to the streets as a patrol officer. Jill resents Jeffrey's return just as he resents returning. While patrolling her beat, Jill sees a nude protester which is a violation of a local ordinance. Jill gives chase, but stops when former Olympian Bryn Wiley asks for her help. Bryn, a local heroine, claims that someone fired a shot at her car.
........ Jill begins to investigate Bryn's claims. The vehicle does have bullet hole in the window. Bryn believes that her aging hippie neighbor Sam Johnson is the culprit. As Jill looks deeper into the case, trying to figure out who is actually the culprit in this not so neighborly spat, Bryn disappears. Jill, realizing that this case could return her to homicide, digs deeper. However, the case is about long term hatreds that are never forgotten and sometimes leads to murder. Jill must set aside her personal agenda and solve the case before someone is actually killed.
........ SUDDEN EXPOSURE brilliantly and tenderly exposes the Berkley counterculture in a humorous who-done-it. Jill is a great police officer/detective, who in her ninth entry, remains one of the best female characters in a continuing mystery series. This reviewer enjoys all of Susan Dunlap's novels (including her other two series: O'Shaunessy and Haskell) and strongly recommends them to anyone who enjoys a quirky female detective surrounded by eccentric heroes and antiheroes (especially the latter). Exposure to Ms. Dunlap's works is good for one's health.
........Harriet Klausner
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4.0 out of 5 stars (3 customer reviews) 7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
This is one author who keeps getting better and better,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Sudden Exposure (A Jill Smith mystery) (Paperback)
Jill Smith enjoys being a homicide detective in Berkley. However when Detective Jeffrey Buckner, who has return rights, comes back from another assignment, she is demoted back to the streets as a patrol officer. Jill resents Jeffrey's return just as he resents returning. While patrolling her beat, Jill sees a nude protester which is a violation of a local ordinance. Jill gives chase, but stops when former Olympian Bryn Wiley asks for her help. Bryn, a local heroine, claims that someone fired a shot at her car.
........ Jill begins to investigate Bryn's claims. The vehicle does have bullet hole in the window. Bryn believes that her aging hippie neighbor Sam Johnson is the culprit. As Jill looks deeper into the case, trying to figure out who is actually the culprit in this not so neighborly spat, Bryn disappears. Jill, realizing that this case could return her to homicide, digs deeper. However, the case is about long term hatreds that are never forgotten and sometimes leads to murder. Jill must set aside her personal agenda and solve the case before someone is actually killed.
........ SUDDEN EXPOSURE brilliantly and tenderly exposes the Berkley counterculture in a humorous who-done-it. Jill is a great police officer/detective, who in her ninth entry, remains one of the best female characters in a continuing mystery series. This reviewer enjoys all of Susan Dunlap's novels (including her other two series: O'Shaunessy and Haskell) and strongly recommends them to anyone who enjoys a quirky female detective surrounded by eccentric heroes and antiheroes (especially the latter). Exposure to Ms. Dunlap's works is good for one's health.
........Harriet Klausner
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
An okay book.,
By C. Eaves - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Sudden Exposure (A Jill Smith mystery) (Paperback)
The writing is not awkward, and the plot is alright. That is to say I haven't figured out who done it yet.
I haven't finished the book, but I'm losing patience with Berkeley already. Unless you do live or have lived in Berkely you may not like to rehash the politics of every character through the years or read fictional accounts of constant political turmoil in every neighborhood. I'm hesitating to say it's overdone (unless I just did), but the book seems to be more about Berkeley than the characters. Perhaps Berkeley really is that politically obsessed, but surely not in the 2000s. I like Jill Smith but can't say much about the other characters, since they're rather sketchy to me. Alright, I'll say it. I don't really like the book. Still, it's not horrible, so there you have it. 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Berkeley Remains in the 1960's,
By Bonnie Brody "Book Lover and Knitter" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Sudden Exposure (A Jill Smith mystery) (Paperback)
Berkeley homicide detective Jill Smith investigates a murder in a truly Bezerkeley fashion. This book is peopled with a wide array of 1960's radicals, Telegraph Avenue freaks, and lots of hippies.
I foud this book readable and fun. It brought back fond memories. I recommend it for plane, beach, or vacation. |
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